Angel Fest, a music festival to raise funds for Homeless Street Angels and St Gemma’s Hospice, will take place in May.
Angel Fest, a music festival to benefit Homeless Street Angels and St Gemma’s Hospice, has been organised by local DJs Andy Hunt and Mark Foster, as well as Co-Founder of Homeless Street Angels Shelley Joyce, who herself has been DJing for 24 years.
Top DJs from around Leeds are donating their time to attend the event and organisers anticipate it being a sell-out. Shelley is also in the line up to be DJing!
Stephanie Jackson from St Gemma’s has said: “St Gemma’s Hospice is an independent charity providing expert palliative care to the people of Leeds for over 45 years, supporting over 3,000 local people a year.
“We believe everyone has the right to compassionate, expert care – St Gemma’s care is about living well and dying well, helping patients and families take back control of their lives. We provide individualised, supportive care for people with life-threatening illnesses, both in the Hospice, and patients’ homes. “Our services are open to everyone, and completely free of charge to patients. However our services are not free to provide, with most of our running costs being raised by our fabulous supporters across the UK. We’re incredibly grateful to Mark and Andy, the organisers of Angel Fest, for choosing to raise funds for us alongside the wonderful Street Angels charity. This will not only help to support patient care, but also make every moment matter for the people living with a terminal diagnosis and their family and friends. Thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us.”
Shelley echoed the sentiment: “I am so pleased that the event is supporting Homeless Street Angels and St Gemma’s, as often our paths cross as charities and they are absolutely amazing at what they do. One of our guys who I have supported on the streets sadly passed away a couple of years ago and I spent a lot of time visiting him in his final days at St Gemma’s and the team there were wonderful and made his final days as comfortable as they could. So it’s a great honour to have this collaboration.
“This fundraiser is so important to us as a charity as not only do we feed over 100 people every Thursday on our weekly outreach we also have over 600 families on our food parcels register. So it’s fundraisers like this that help us to do what we love to do. And I love the fact that it’s local to both our charities and we are looking forward to a great day with lots of good music.”
The event will take place on 25th May at Moortown Rugby Club, tickets are available at: Skiddle.com/whats-on/Leeds/Moortown- Rugby-Club/ANGEL-FEST-Charity- Day/37266669
